On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 23:51:28 -0500, "Daniel J. Stern"
wrote:

On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Steve Firth wrote:

I'm not familiar with GEC bulbs

You'll find them sold with a GE logo in the USA.

Again, are you *quite* sure? My recollection is that GE-branded bulbs for
the US market were primarily manufactured in the US.

I believe this is still correct for incandescent lamps and
linear fluorescent lamps. Most of the GE-brand compact
fluorescent lamps sold in the US come from a very large
factory in SW Hungary with an increasing share from China.
I'm not sure about GE-brand HID lamps, but I think most are
still made in the US. Certain HID types, such as arcstream,
were developed by Thorn and made in the UK (Leicester) when
I last worked for GE. I believe that manufacturing for other
Thorn-developed lamps, such as the 2-D, is done in the US,
at least for US-distributed product.

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